Friday, May 6, 2016

Republicans Must Defeat Trump in November

Donald Trump is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the
Republican Party. I could not have imagined writing that sentence even a
few short weeks ago, and it fills me with despair. How have we come to
this point, and how do we move forward?
I have said it
often enough, but it bears repeating: I will not vote for Donald Trump
for president.

There are millions like me. We fully understand the
consequences -- another four years of a Democrat in the White House --
even if we do not like them.

Though I can only speak for myself, I
think my sentiments are widely shared. I am an American first, a
conservative second and a Republican a distant third. If Donald Trump is
the face of the Republican Party, I want no part of it.

This
goes beyond policy differences. Trump's positions on trade, immigration,
health care, entitlements and foreign policy (muddled and confusing as
they are) are mostly anathema to me. But it is the man's character,
first and foremost, that makes it impossible for me to put aside my
differences.

I was fully prepared to support Ted Cruz, whose
position on immigration I vehemently disagree with and whose style I
found off-putting. But Trump is unfit in every way to be president. He
has neither the intellect nor the discipline to learn what is necessary
to occupy the office. More importantly, his temperament is all wrong.
He's vindictive, mean-spirited, vain and unpredictable. He will never
put the interests of the country before his own.

He wraps himself in red, white and blue and slogans of making
America great again, but what has he ever done for this country? While
young men of his generation were fighting and dying, and, as in the case
of John McCain, being tortured for their country, Donald Trump was
bedding down as many women as he could despite his fear of contracting a
venereal disease. "It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and
very brave soldier," he told shock jock Howard Stern, explaining that he
made sure the women he had sex with were checked out by his own
personal doctor. And this is the man who had the nerve to say John
McCain was no hero!

On the very day he tied up the nomination by
winning all of Indiana's 57 delegates, Trump was on the campaign stump
spreading vicious, unsubstantiated, libelous allegations against Ted
Cruz's father, suggesting Rafael Cruz was an associate of John F.
Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald. He's insulted women, Hispanics,
blacks, Jews, even his own supporters. Remember his "I love the poorly
educated" line? There is no limit to his depredations.

Reince
Priebus, the chairman of the GOP, now wants Republicans to fall in line
and support Trump. But doing so will doom the Republican Party -- and
worse, the country. Thankfully, not all GOP leaders are falling in line,
most notably Speaker Paul Ryan, who said Thursday he was not yet ready
to endorse Trump.

I don't think Trump can win the election, but I am not
nearly as confident as I once was in that prediction. The best way to
ensure it doesn't happen is for those of us who think Trump is unfit to
be president to withhold support from him. That means not donating to
the Republican National Committee as well as leaving the top of the
ticket blank when we go into the polling booth in November. There are
plenty of good Republican candidates worthy of support. Give to their
campaigns directly -- so long as they don't tie themselves to Trump too
closely.

If the Republican Party is to regain its soul, it is
important that Donald Trump be defeated resoundingly. This should be a
landslide repudiation, not a tepid one. When the votes are tallied in
each state, it is important that Trump's totals are lower than the
totals of other Republicans on the ticket, not simply to save the Senate
and House and other down-ticket Republican candidates but to send a
clear message: Hillary Clinton did not defeat Donald Trump; Republicans
refused to vote for him.

2 comments:

Diane, this is the worse post since you began this web page. With an attitude like this one coming from Chavez and others like her (Romney, Graham, Ryan will come around, Bush) is proof that the Republican electorate can screw up a "wet dream." No matter what folks think about Trump they wil not prevent him from becoming President. If the Democrats are foolish enough to choose the Bimbo CZAR as their candidate Trump will annihilate her. The FBI will hand the DOJ a truck load of criminal evidence and if they choose to ignore it there will be FBI leaks and the Bimbo CZAR will be toast (she is toast already but will be burnt toast).

Folks like yourself and Chavez who backed Cruz are a big part of the problem. I know you are a pretty smart woman which means you know that Teddie Cruz is not a "natural born Citizen" and you still supported the lying sob. Lying, because he knows he is NOT a "natural born Citizen." I will never trust folks who knowingly support a man or woman who would let a lie as serious as eligibility get swept under the rug. Republicans allowed the Long Legged Mack Daddy to pimp the nation from day one and did nothing to stop him.

Diane, this is the worse post since you began this web page. With an attitude like this one coming from Chavez and others like her (Romney, Graham, Ryan will come around, Bush) is proof that the Republican electorate can screw up a "wet dream." No matter what folks think about Trump they wil not prevent him from becoming President. If the Democrats are foolish enough to choose the Bimbo CZAR as their candidate Trump will annihilate her. The FBI will hand the DOJ a truck load of criminal evidence and if they choose to ignore it there will be FBI leaks and the Bimbo CZAR will be toast (she is toast already but will be burnt toast).

Folks like yourself and Chavez who backed Cruz are a big part of the problem. I know you are a pretty smart woman which means you know that Teddie Cruz is not a "natural born Citizen" and you still supported the lying sob. Lying, because he knows he is NOT a "natural born Citizen." I will never trust folks who knowingly support a man or woman who would let a lie as serious as eligibility get swept under the rug. Republicans allowed the Long Legged Mack Daddy to pimp the nation from day one and did nothing to stop him.

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